Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

We've already promised to invest billions into the Ukrainian rebuilding... So has Sweden and Denmark. It's probably still going to be a really slow process. But Ukraine won't be alone in the rebuilding process.
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Honestly, while I don't usually side with the Chinese I actually hope that they're able to get a decent market share.. Having three companies would be better then two for the market.
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@Jonas.856 Kind of... Thing is, Norwegian "oliarchs" have limited power compared to the ones in other countries. And they're not looked up to by the Norwegian society at large. Any activity of theirs that's not for the benefit of society at large or strictly above board normal capitalism is scrutinized closely and will be judged.
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It feels like you guys are missing the point. Sweden has not had too much immigration. They've had failed integration policies. There's a difference.
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Interesting. A few months late, but fleshes out what's common knowlege a little bit.
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@conductingintomfoolery9163 Actually, Finland has one of Europes largest armies, and Sweden one of its largest airforces. Sure, the population is small in both countries, but they're both significant. And importantly, they're not trying to abolish their democracies. Something that actually matters a great deal in Europe. Perhaps more so then wealth or possibly even the Bosporus. NATOs members will negotiate with Turkey, and they'll get some concessions. But Europe is getting pretty fed up with countries pretending to be democracies while dismantling their democracies. And also with their behavior. Playing the rest of Europe up against external powers might be grudgingly accepted when everyone involved are democratic (What Norway is doing between the US and EU). But not when both Erduans Turkey and Russia is heading in a more and more authoritarian direction.
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@JProAG Good luck. Any chance of legal businesses in the country going together to form a "gang" that's actually following laws and that's held accountable? A group lead by elected representatives from the area they control? If you can gain the support of locals and peoples trust it might be possible to expand relatively peacefully as people in areas held by neighbouring fans might genuinely want to live under you?
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@liuyifei1989 A military industrial complex needs a state to support it, or multiple states. This is straining Russia economically. The lack of components is also reducing the capability of their military-industrial complex to actually produce weapons, meaning that both domestic needs and export needs are not being meet. Orders are being cancelled because Russia isn't delivering the weapons ordered. And their troops are increasingly relying on old weapons from storage, in other words a non-renewable resource. Because once the old stockpiles run out they'll be left with only what they can make new... Those old weapons can't be replaced... Meaning that eventually their army will have to go without... And that means reduced combat capabilities.
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Increasing deliveries would be nice. But the reality is that this war will probably take a long time to end. Probably well over a decade... So we need to be ready for the long haul if we want to win...
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We're currently fine here in Norway. But if Turkey decides to stick to their guns so Finland and Sweden can't join NATO... Also, Russia is always a joker in this context... Also, if Europe manages to cut natural gas needs that could end up being... difficult... for us. Nothing we can't handle, but definitely something that'll require a adjustment.
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Actually, no, we can't save the EU even if we wanted. We can increase oil production and sales, but doing so takes time. As for contributing with money. While we own a lot it's still a relatively small amount compared to what bigger countries can mobilize with their economies if they genuinely want to. We're just 5 million people.
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 @RicardoJoseReza Not exactly. Weapons do differ.
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@norman_zRead up on its history. Yes, it's fast and hard to shoot down... But it's also stupid... It was intended as one of the first fire and forget missiles they had if I don't remember wrong... But it's not really able to tell the difference between one hot object and another one. So if you have say a outdoor toilet or a gravel road or whatever that's a bit warmer then your real target it's going to hit that instead... The targeting system is the part that's antiquated. Not the engine, an area where the soviets actually where slightly ahead of the Americans during the cold war.
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We're all hoping for a good end for Iran and Israel both.
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Honestly it's not the best investment er could make... It probably should be done eventually, but in my view it should be a low priority project. More cars isn't helpful. And there's a lot of other infrastructure that would pay more dividend for our society then connections going across all of the fjords and between all of the islands. Connecting everything to land though absolutely makes sense.
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@Hession0Drasha The west coast is not the part with a decent climate. That's the southeast. Basically the only good weather in Norway is east of the mountains. It's also the southeast and central Norway that has most of the agricultural land of the country. The west has a limited carrying capacity, if for whatever reason more people start living there that would mean that we'd have to import more food there becoming even worse at self sufficiency then before... The west only really have fish and some limited agricultural areas. Great for fruit. But seriously, I don't think that we should aim at significantly increasing population anywhere but central and southeastern Norway.
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This reminds me a lot about Norway, minus the direct democracy side of things.
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@TheJorben89 "Vassal" isn't accurate. Norway is still a sovereign nation with the right to veto EU laws being sent our way and make laws of our own. We usually don't, but that doesn't mean that we *can't*.
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Also, welfare on its own isn't a problem either. It's about designing welfare systems with the desired incentives and results and that doesn't have unintended consequences.
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The words have similar origins. The virus is named after the shape of some protein spikes on the surface that kind of looks like a crown from what I understand. And the currency in Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden is also named after the crown.
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@spxram4793 War reparations isn't as good an idea as people might think... We tried that with Germany after WW1, not the best results to put it that way... We can perhaps ensure that Ukraine is allowed to use Russian resources confiscated abroad. But ultimately Russia is probably going to need help with recovering after all of this as well... And if Putin is replaced I think we should help them, just like we'll help Ukraine... If Putin stays in power... Well, his cronies will have to suffer till they no longer support him...
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@doomoo5365 Depends, to some degree... We're going to need bigger ammunition stockpiles, that's for sure... But the number of planes, tanks, guns etc isn't going to need to be increased that much. We'll mostly need replacement for what we're sending to Ukraine, and a bit more spare parts. Especially gun barrels for artillery... There might be some modifications to reflect what is being learned in Ukraine. But yeah, with all the damage being done to Russian combat capabilities you might find that Europe, one of the biggest buyers of weapons in the world will end up needing to buy less weapons, as Russia simply becomes less of a threat. China remains though...
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@norman_z I'm glad you liked it. You might want to check out "Willy OAM" and "Perun" for information about the war in Ukraine. Being from western Europe I also like the videos from "Kraut" (don't let the country ball style fool you, it's good content) as his Austrian point of view helps explain eastern and southern Europe and the dynamics at play there. There's a whole bunch of other sources also worth looking at, but those is a good starting point.
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Honestly the Anglophone world is too sure of itself. The US is politically unstable. Their infrastructure is economically unsustainable with less tax revenue pr square km then expenses in among other things infrastructure. Their education system is falling apart. And so one and so forth. The US is not going to remain a true superpower for that long. They're not going to vanish, they'll remain a great power and they'll probably recover at some point. But the country is overreaching its capabilities and lacks understanding of both itself and the world. The UK also has issues with a distorted view of the world etc and are going to lose influence too.
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Military research spending while it might work is still inefficient at improving peoples lives in terms of improvement or dollar compared to civilian spending. Creating a start up that mainly serves the military isn't that useful for civilians. And most of the military research is based on prior civilian research anyway... Sure, it might take longer, but it's worth it.
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Several of the fundamental assumptions here is... Problematic... For instance your source assumes that any value is either "liberal" or "conservative" despite several of those values being the other way around elsewhere and in fact being on a separate axis entirely. About one third of voters out there simply don't believe in either category. These voters would be better served by their own political parties. You guys blame ecco chambers. Implying that the social media and traditional media somehow is the problem. But they wouldn't be as big of a deal if there where more political parties to begin with that had overlapping voter based and mutual respect for each other. You might not agree with someone on the total opposite side of the spectrum in whatever axis you are looking at but with other parties available that overlap in certain areas you can't really have the same effect of those ecco chambers you mentioned. You depend on them for coalition governments and frequently mix voters. And these seperate voters and parties would further their own agendas and therefore inform the public discord since they cannot be ignored by the other parties. So you can get nuanced arguments and approaches. The incentives simply wouldn't favor the kind of behavior from the politicans, voters or media as seen in the US. After all, the narrative changes away from a us vs them one to begin with.
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 @kuamir573 The economic crisis is caused by internal mismanagement. Even the full economic power of the EU and USA combined can't make up for Erduans incompetence...
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@papaitojan They're no more Islamic fanatics then you are. The authoritarian bend is true though. Basically, Turkey is experiencing the same thing that the US was under Trump and Bush. Authoritarian leaders elected by conservatives from their "bible belt". Turkey has a mix of proportional and first past the post electoral system. That makes elections a lot more about people then politics or parties. In local elections where people start their political careers it's all first past the post. With the negative effects that entails. The parliament is a bit better, being proportional, but still quite a bit in favour of the bigger parties, something that also causes issues. And of course they have a presidential system, two round election. They'd do a lot better with a parliamentarian system, and proportionality at every level.
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A nuclear power plant being small doesn't make the disaster any smaller the day a Russian bomb hits it or some other disaster...
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The problem isn't the trade unions. There's other police forces out there with strong trade unions where officers still have to answer for their actions/conduct. Just look at the Scandinavian countries. Instead this video seems like it's politically biased without the cross political viewpoint you guys used to have.
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